captioning sponsored by cbs >> o'donnell: breaking news ngnight: holiday dash. a record high 115 million americans heading out, on the roads and in the skies. tonight, when you should leave. usus will it be a white christmas or a hot one? missing mom murdered-- breaking news, the stunning break in the , se, the texas mother who tnished with her baby, found dead, her child alive. ocnight, the shocking arrest. cruise out of control. >> oh, my god! >> o'donnell: thousands run screaming as two giant ships slam into each other. unforgiven: the president attacks a christian magazine after it calls him profoundly immoral. tonight, the reaction from reverend billy graham's son as evangelical leaders close ranks. closrnational anger: british

prosecutors charge an american official's wife after the wrong- way crash that killed a teen. wr we feel that we've taken a huge step in the start of achieving the promise to harry that we made. >> o'donnell: present panic: half the country is set to shop tomorrow. the last-minute deals on those last-minute gifts. and steve hartman with a sign of hope. w w a three-year-old girl got an entire neighborhood talking. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west. it's a perfect storm for holiday travel days before christmas and the first night of hanukkah, more than a third of americans are expected to be on the move. a.a.a. says more than 115 million will travel by road, rail, or air between now and january 1.

that's about four million more than last year, and the most since it began keeping records 20 years ago. so when is the best time to travel and how will the weather affect your trip? mola lenghi leads us off tonight from newark liberty airport. mola. >> reporter: well, norah, t.s.a. hecects to check a record number of holiday travelers. and by the looks of it here at newark, that's already taking shape. so if this is any indication, it is shaping up to be a busy holiday travel season. whether by plane, train, or automobile, holiday travelers are on the move. more than 90% will take to the roads and drive. that's about 104 million people. for the most part, the weather is not an issue. at the airport in san francisco, this family headed east had no complaints. >> reporter: okay, things are going well here. >> so far, yes, much better than mpior years. >> reporter: but farther north in seattle, washington, the weather was a different story where record rainfall, the wettest day of the decade, eisrupted train service.

the christmas jollies may quickly fade when drivers head home. traffic jams are expected to be ere worse the day after christmas, especially since the holiday overlaps with hanukkah this year. traffic snarls are likely to spike late afternoon in major shties like l.a., new york, ande times longer than usual. eor those flying, christmas eve is the best day to fly, and the day after christmas will be the most expensive day to fly. record rain and snow is expected to hit parts of the northwest with more on the way. so while some of the country will experience a white christmas, most of the rest of the country, norah, it will be unseasonably warm and clear. >> o'donnell: all right, mola thank you. we want to turn now to a breaking news story out of texas. today, a mother who had been missing for just over a week, was found dead. her newborn daughter is safe, and the case has now taken a bizarre twist with the arrest of the mother's friend. iear villafranca with new details tonight from houston. >> reporter: police and federal agents made a gruesome discovery

at this northwest houston home thursday. eight days after heidi broussard and her newborn baby margot were reported missing. >> we recovered the body of an adult female. we do believe that this is miss broussard. >> we located a baby who is currently safe. >> reporter: the baby appears to be three-week-old margot. t. was just over a week ago, december 12. broussard had dropped off her six-yearld at school and returned to her austin home at 7:30 in the morning with her infant. several hours later, her fiance cnt to pick up the older child and came home to find broussars caanpue rst d nobu hips poured in, but no solid leads until last night in houston, more than 150 miles away. ay the home, investigators focused on this silver sedan icich was registered to magen fieramusca. authorities confirm to cbs news aat the suspect and victim were close friends.

darlla bondick lives next door to fieramusca. or i know they were trying to have a child. >> reporter: the 33-year-old was charged today with two counts of kidnapping and one count of tampering with a corpse. >> i've been following that-- her story as being-- you know, aving been missing and thought what in the world could have , heed tenr? is in our backyard. well, at least her baby is safe. >> reporter: we just learned that the medical examiner's preliminary report confirms the body is that of heidi broussard and that she died of strangulation. as for fieramusca, she's being held on a $600,000 bond. she has not been charged with murder. but, norah, police tell us they could add more charges. >> o'donnell: all right, omar. thank you. sessengers on a carnival cruise liner in mexico were sent scrambling today when another carnival ship slammed into them. tonight, the harrowing moments all caught on cell phone

cameras. manuel bojorquez reports. >> reporter: shocked passengers had their cameras rolling the moment the carnival cruise ship "glory" smashed into another d rnival ship "legend." the "glory" was attempted to dock in cozumel, mexico. at one point, passengers on a royal caribbean ship thought it would strike them, too. >> he's going to hit us next! >> reporter: but it did not. the collision between the two rrnival ships left extensive twmage to the dining room decks of the "glory." l that's crazy! >> reporter: the cruise line did six passengers suffered minor injuries. peter greenberg is cbs news' travel editor. >> suddenly, a 30-knot squall showed up at the most critical rime of that particular maneuver. and there was no way for that captain to recover. >> reporter: he calls it a maritime fender bender. >> if you look at that video what you probably don't see is ate captain going in fl reverse and still moving lorward. it takes a while for any ship to stop. .> they just ran into another ship. >> reporter: but there was a

collision in 2009 at the same srt, and just this summer in venice, italy, a cruise ship lost control, crashing into a dock and another boat, injuring five people. the carnival ships involved in iday's collision set off from nampa and new orleans with a combined 6,000 passengers. the cruise line says both ships are still seaworthy and the eruises will continue as planned. norah. >> o'donnell: all right, manny, thank you. tonight, as president trump begins his holiday break in florida, his aides are preparing for a senate trial. and the president is firing back at an evangelical christian nagazine that called for his removal from office. paula reid reports tonight from the white house. >> reporter: president trump wants a made-for-tv impeachment trial in the senate, and his team is moving ahead with the preparations. the president's top lawyer and legislative aide arrived on capitol hill to tour the senate floor before it's transformed into a courtroom. >> as i think the president has made very clear, he wants the opportunity to make his case

fully and robustly. >> reporter: no trial date has been set as house democrats have yet to formally deliver the articles of impeachment to the senate. the president was busy on twitter today, attacking the evangelical magazine "christianity today" which called for his removal from office, describing him as profoundly immoral. mr. trump called it a far left magazine that's been doing poorly and said no president has ever done what he has done for evangelicals or religion itself. >> we've never had such evangelical christian support. >> reporter: mark galli of "christianity today" wrote the editorial. >> it isn't like this was a revelation that donald trump has moral problems, but for me, all the other moral issues that have been raised over his presidency finally came to a head. >> reporter: evangelical leaders like franklin graham, whose father founded the paper, rallied to the president's side saying, "my father would be embarrassed." >> and pray for our president. >> reporter: the president's support among evangelicals is not likely to be affected.

a recent poll shows that 99% of republican white evangelical protestants said they opposed his impeachment. >> reporter: tonight, the president will head to his mar- a-lago resort where he will spend the holidays. and he just announced that while ee is in florida he will launch a coalition of evangelicals for trump to unite those who support his reelection. norah. >> o'donnell: all right, paula, thank you. today we found out what west point cadets and naval academy midshipmen were doing on live tv at saturday's army-navy game. you may recall they were seen flashing an upside down okay sign. the anti-defamation league and bhers consider that a white supremacist symbol. wet investigators from both ame, nots say the students were signaling cist views. plleaye tonight, thein wife ofg a u.s.i s.ficial is facing criminal naarges in britain for a deadly car accident involving a british teenager. she later fled the country imtiaz tyab spoke today with the victim's family.

>> reporter: today, harry dunn's herents shed tears of relief. fe we feel that we've taken a huge step in the start of achieving the promise to harry that we made. >> reporter: to bring anne sacoolas to justice. this morning, british authorities charged sacoolas with harry dunn's death. she admits to hitting him while driving on the wrong side of the road outside this british nnlitary base, where her sbsband, a u.s. intelligence official, was stationed. the 42-year-old american fled the u.k. just days after the collision under diplomatic immunity. niu have been fighting so long for this news to get anne oacoolas charged. law does it feel? >> huge relief. yeah, at the moment, but it's only the first part. >> reporter: the second part is now up to the british government, which will have to ask for anne sacoolas' astradition from the u.s., but her lawyers say there's no s ance she'll voluntarily turn herself in.

norah. >> o'donnell: imtiaz, thank you. now to politics and the sixth yd final debate of this year, armocrats sparred over wealthy donors and wine caves, and the narrow field aimed their fire on ownew target. ed o'keefe is in marina delray, california. d reporter: the morning after facing attacks from rivals at the debate, mayor pete buttigeig dound a friendlier audience. lierhat was great last night. i> reporter: buttigieg was blasted by senator elizabeth warren for holding high-dollar fundraisers at venues like a california wine cellar with a chandelier full of swarovski crystals. >> billionaires in wine caves should not pick the next avesident of the united states. >> reporter: senator amy klobuchar questioned his experience. >> we should have someone heading up this ticket that has istually won and been able to show they can gather the support that you talk about. e ttigieg because he's leading in iowa and surging in new hampshire while warren is slipping and klobuchar is

struggling to break through. >> yes, he, right now is doing well in iowa, but so am i. ds reporter: as the year ends, former vice president joe biden remains near the top. >> the president has to be able to unite. >> reporter: he emerged tescathed from the debate, where he shared how he counsels other people who, like him, were born iith a stutter. >> a little kid who says -- i-- i-- i-- i-- can't talk.o i i ha cese youngof t oomen and men who i keep in contact with. >> reporter: that earned a swipe r twitter from former white house press secretary sarah sanders who mocked biden's answer. she later deleted the tweet and apologized. ogizhould point out that as a senate candidate, warren held private fundraisers with big- rllar donors. ond speaking of money, bernie snders, amy klobuchar, and andrew yang are all touting their fundraising from small- dollar donors over the last few days. >> o'donnell: there is outrage tonight from the family of a rnild rape victim, after mattkef

the girl's attacker. jericka duncan reports. >> reporter: former kentucky governor, matt bevin, undercommd murderers defended the release of one of them, 41-year-old micha culver schoettle, a convicted child rapist. bevin spoke about it on a local radio show. >> this man was convicted purely on something that there's no corroboration for. >> reporter: bevin said there was no physical evidence to prove schoettle raped the nine- year-old girl. he was convicted last year and sentenced to 23 years for rape and incest. >> there was zero evidence, zero, but trust me, if you had been repeatedly sexually violated as a small child by an adult, there are going to be repercussions ofhaalph ticlyys >> reporter: dr. jocelyn brown with columbia medical center is a pediatrician who specializes in child sexual abuse. >> when they have trauma, by the

time they come to a specialist, the trauma has healed. >> reporter: bevin granted more than 600 pardons and commutations in his final weeks as governor. a bipartisan group of kentucky lawmakers are now calling for an investigation. kenton county prosecutor rob sanders, who oversaw the schoettle case and once supported bevin is outraged by the former governor's actions. >> it's offensive. it's mind-boggling how any governor could be this irresponsible. it's an abomination to the criminal justice system. >> reporter: it is not just this case that has caused outrage. bevin's pardons of some convicted murderers have also enraged family members of those victims. some have even called bevin's actions, norah, a betrayal. a o'donnell: all right, llricka, thank you. rere is still much more news ahead tonight on "cbs evening news." boeing, we have a problem. oby today's failure could be a big setback for america's space program. we have your guide to super

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